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a clean sheet 1. if you are given a clean sheet, you can start something again, and all the problems caused by you or other people in the past will be forgotten. I want us to forget all the arguing of the past, and start the New Year with a clean sheet. 2. if a football team or a goalkeeper (= the player who stands in the goal) has a clean sheet, they do not allow the other team to score any goals. United kept a clean sheet in an away match for the first time this season. |
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I was officially introduced to the debate at the height of the squabble; and found myself one of a large party in a small room, sitting round a long table, each man of us with a new pewter inkstand, a new quill pen, and a clean sheet of foolscap paper before him. The Third Three conspired over whiskey cocktails and a clean sheet of note-paper against the British Empire and all that lay therein. The sick man himself, washed and combed, lay in clean sheets on high raised pillows, in a clean night-shirt with a white collar about his astoundingly thin neck, and with a new expression of hope looked fixedly at Kitty. |
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